[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 100 (Thursday, June 13, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4079-S4081]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   CONGRESSIONAL AWARD GOLD MEDALISTS

  Ms. LUMMIS. Madam President, today I wish to congratulate this year's 
winners of the Congressional Award. The Congressional Award was 
established by Congress in 1979 and, for many years, has recognized the 
spectacular achievements of young people in the areas of volunteerism, 
personal development, fitness, and expedition.
  The brilliant design of this program allows individuals to set their 
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goals based on personal interest and work toward either a bronze, 
silver, or gold certificate or medal. It is incredible to see what 
young people can achieve when they are personally invested in setting 
and achieving their goals. I am impressed to hear of the combined 
impact and can only imagine the overwhelming benefits to communities 
across the country.
  It is a privilege to recognize the great work of this year's 
recipients. I urge these young people to continue aiming high and 
setting a positive example for their peers.
  I include in the Record a list of this year's Congressional Award 
Gold Medalists from around the country:

       Alaska: Madeline Anderson
       Alabama: Amanda Browning, Lily Hoyle
       Arkansas: Abigail Catron
       Arizona: Billal Abulfotuh, Adelina Grotenhuis, Thomasina 
     (Tamsin) Hurlbut, Zaid Jamal, Timothy Jiang, Payton Kelly, 
     Ronald (Ronnie) Keyes, Shea Lee, Colin Lifshitz, Mustafa 
     Nalbantoglu, Zack Okun, Borislava Panayotova, Cutter Papritz, 
     Sofia Reyes, Alyson Small, Elyzabeth Small, Mason Takeuchi, 
     Ivanna Viloria Enciso
       California: Annika Agarwal, Nathaniel Arrogante, Emin 
     Aslan, Shijoon Bae, Adrian Baek, Zoey Bahng, Brianna Bailey, 
     Pravin Balasingam, Daniel Bang, Naim Bayraktar, Wolfram 
     Bikel, Lachlan Black, Reenie Cao, Tenzing Carvalho, Hyunwoo 
     Cha, Olivia Cha, Ethan Chang, David Chang, Shruti Chari, Mina 
     Chen, Steven Cheng, Hemkesh Chenupati, Emilie Chi, Alexander 
     Chiao, Jamie Cho, Jessica Cho, Nathan Cho, Nagyung (Anna) 
     Cho, Rosa Cho, Michelle Cho, Mason Choey, Ellie Choi, Minjoon 
     Choi, Samuel Choi, Sophia Chou, Taylor Chu, Chloe Chung, 
     Brandon Chung, Hatice Sevde Deniz, Diya Dipak, Claire Dokko, 
     Elliot Dokko, Jason Dong, Feodora Douplitzky-Lunati, Renee 
     Duan, Azra Erdogan, Madeleine Freeland, Aarushi Ghildyal, 
     Xinyue (Cindy) Gong, Sophie Gopen, Amita Gowda, Radhika 
     Goyal, Athena Guan, Aaron Han, Paul Han, Junhyeok Han, Yahya 
     Hasan, Xihao He, Qingchun He, Dia Hemanth, Katherine Hion, 
     Evan Ho, Jeongmin Hong, Eric Hong, Ian Hong, Daniel Hong, 
     Yixian Huang, Celine Huh, Cat-Tam Huynh, Jung Jin Hwang, 
     Priscilla Ibarra, Nolan Ironhill, Carter Jackson, Ria Jain, 
     Hanlee Jang, Shriya Janolkar, Jaeyoung (Ryan) Jeon, Ella 
     Jeon, Minhyeok Jeong, Noah Jeong, Eliana Jeong, Benjamin 
     Jiang, Claire Jin, Jaehee Jung, Jessica Jung, Heidi Jung, 
     Hailey Jiwon Kang, Shreyas Kapavarapu, Garrett Kath, 
     Sudhakhar Katta, Ava Khossravi, Julian Kim, Ryan Kim, Chloe 
     Kim, Rachel Kim, Stanley Kim, Daeyong Kim, Theodore Kim, 
     Baron Kim, Sean Kim, Eric Kim, Jonathan Kim, Hennah Kim, 
     Skyler Kim, Lauren Kim, Clair Kim, Christine Kim, Kayleen 
     Kim, Ivy Kim, Isaac Kim, Choyoung (Kaylee) Kim, Yoonho Kim, 
     Niklas Kinne, Amit Krishna, Shivam Kumar, Chris Kwon, Hannah 
     Lee, Eunchan Lee, Nicole Lee, ChunPo Lee, Jayden Lee, Ashley 
     Lee, Kunwoo Lee, Kayla Lee, Alexis Lee, Seongjae (Alex) Lee, 
     Claire Lee, Aiden Lee, Yennie Lee, Hyunmin (Paul) Lee, 
     Brandon Lee, Logan Lee, Nathan Lee, Angelina Lee, Hyunwoo 
     Lee, Nahyun Lee, Eunice Lee, Nayun Lee, Jeongwoo Lee, Ian 
     Lee, Tabitha Lee Chon, Michelle Li, Jessica Li, Qiuxian 
     (Lily) Li, Darell Lien, Ryan Lim, Zoe Lin, Vito Lin, 
     Sebastian Liong, Danny Willow Liu, Ziyi (Eva) Liu, Bryan 
     Louie, Audrey Lowell, Alex Lu, Mallika Maddukuri, Simon 
     March-Cunningham, Addison Marrs, Tejas Mathai, Mihir Mathai, 
     Robert McPhie, Xuefeng Mei, Ryan Min, Avery Mizrahi, Maya 
     Mohan, Antoinette Morales, Kea Morshed, Jane Moyer, Heeju 
     Nam, Sriya Neti, Yishan Ni, Alex Nicholson, Hyunmin Noh, 
     Ethan Noh, Abigail Norman, Justin Oh, Azra Oten, Matthew 
     Paek, Iris Paek, Ethan Paik, Noah Pak, Andrew Park, Michelle 
     Park, Michelle Park, Keilah Park, Joanne Park, Sydney Park, 
     Lena Park, Aiden Park, Gunwoo Park, Ryan Park, Arin Parsa, 
     Safia Peer, Shay Pema, Abhinav Penagalapati, Devyn (Divya) 
     Ponnuvelu, Arya Prince, Sanam Punjabi, Tengjie (Jay) Qiu, 
     Kate Quach, Tanush Rachamalla, Zachery Ramos, Maanasa 
     Ramprasad, Neel Rangan, Nevin Rao, Mahika Redla, Aidan Reyes, 
     David Rivera, Jonathan Ryu, Hoon Ryu, Simran Saluja, 
     Katherine Scannell, Jeremy Schabilion, Samyuktha 
     Senthilnathan, Sienna Shah, Sidharth Sharma, Anthony Shen, 
     HaJoon Shim, Chloe Shim, Yeonsu Shim, Christine Shin, Yuna 
     Shin, Hojun Son, Ryan Song, Jocelyn Soo, Jacob St. George, 
     Raymond Suh, Erin Ji Sun, Bridget Swineford, Emily Tae, Alex 
     Tak, Shiyan (Judy) Tao, Alyssa Taylor, Maia Tumbokon, Sashan 
     Umashankar, Sriram Vaidhyanathan, Ved Vedere, Tanya Vidhun, 
     Nathan Wan, Kylie Wang, Terry Wang, Tiffany Wang, Dylan West, 
     Aaron Won, Chelsea Won, Avery Wong, Andrew Woo, Jiyun Woo, 
     Kari Wu, Wenkai Wu, Jiaze (Leo) Xu, Adora Yan, Lindsay Yao, 
     Noah Yi, Jaewon (Justin) Yi, Boaz Earl Yoo, Calista Yoo, 
     Jaden Yoo, Jeremy Yoo, Hayley Yoon, Faith Yoon, Juneho Yoon, 
     Ethan Yoon, Allison Yu, Zihang Yu, Jackson Zagone, Zhongwen 
     Zhang, Wenyao (William) Zhao, Cindy Zhao, Ruiyu (Rayer) Zhou, 
     Jackson Zinn
       Colorado: Seif Abouyoussef, Henry Bae, Elizabeth Batenburg, 
     Ria Ghosh, Gracie Woo
       Connecticut: Reid Barry, Martin Jara, Ava Leshem, Alisha 
     Patel, Madeline Phelan, Emily Roy, Natalia Schaffer, Liam 
     Tomaszewski, Neha Tungaturthy, Zach Yung
       Delaware: Nitya Singh, Anirudh Singh
       Florida: Keziah Anderson, Jessie Baxter, Flavio Canello, 
     Caleigh Carter, Coen Chilver, Colton Chilver, Luke Cooper, 
     Landon Dabney, Clayton Didier, Zakaria El-Helw, Emily 
     Feichthaler, Keira Rose Finelli, Tarang Gaddam, Anjali 
     Gusani, Chase Hartman, Maddox Hoffman, John Humphreys, Jake 
     Julien, Jessa-Chloe Katzeff, Neeharika Kota, Aditya Krishnan, 
     Fisher Ledbetter, Calder Ledbetter, Robert Linton, Ramsey 
     McClure, Isabella Mendelson, Aaditya Nair, Arjun Nanduri, 
     Adam Oakes, Sophia Olsinski, Dhruv Pandya, Grace Pleinis, 
     Emma Rawlson, Aubrey Rosenhaus, Julian Sant, Ava Shelly, 
     Charles Stacy, Jonathan Steffen, Christopher (Thor) Warnken
       Georgia: Katherine Elizabeth Aide, David Blanco, Ashley 
     Choi, Raine Cox, Jayden Daniel, Christian Flournoy, Lauren 
     Foglesong, Joseph Ivey, Rishi Jeyamurthy, Akhil Kalva, 
     Achintya Murugaraj, Sanjana Pawar, Danica Resha, Ella 
     Shaffer, Ananya Tadepalli, Pranavi Vedula
       Guam: Julie Ann Laxamana
       Hawaii: Barbara Goldyn, Jay Rhymer
       Iowa: Alexander Hennig, Tiff Lieberman, Nadia Patel
       Idaho: Ireland Clark, Elliott Lochard
       Illinois: Grace Catherine Bourbon, Christian Goodall, Cora 
     Koch, Anne Reidenbach, Bela Sanghavi
       Indiana: Liam Blank, Audrey Booher, Zoe Carpenter, Aditi 
     Dey, Brandon Kruger, Theodore Lach, Thomas S. Pemberton
       Kansas: Samiksha Aitha, Liane Bdair, Afraah Hawa, Ella 
     Heitmann, Daniel John
       Kentucky: Jackson Robbins, Isaac Stricker
       Louisiana: Elliott Gomes
       Massachusetts: Madison Cable, Matthew Church, Aden Geonhee 
     Lee, Tain Leonard-Peck, Chen-An Lin, Prisha Shrivastava, 
     Jason Zhou
       Maryland: Ellis Chung, Elijah Cockey, Isabel Cockey, Mason 
     Denny, Emily Dong, David Hamman, Zander Hine, Adam Jackson, 
     Jessica Li, Aidan McCrohan, Amari Mhoon, Rithwik Reddy, 
     Andrew Sha, Joseph Simak, Guy Taylor, Boyan-Jise Tiwang
       Michigan: Elizabeth Cook, Benjamin Hayes, Miles Hopkins, 
     Grace Pantea, Jeff Roseman
       Minnesota: Alluri Akshay, Jonathan Erickson, Abigail 
     Hudson, Gabriella Hudson, Mark Swanson
       Missouri: Brandon Barrett, Lydia Brodbeck, Alex Chen, Cole 
     Dannull, Gianna Francis, Lindsey Gordon, John Hayes, Savannah 
     King, Melissa Matlalcuatzi Pluma, Liam Smith, Alina 
     Stribling, Helton W. Walker, Ethan Wood
       Mississippi: Hayden Barnett, Ashley Grace Bassett, Colt 
     Bergman, Lauren Hobson, Hannah Sanders
       North Carolina: Nachammai Annamalai, Hannah Bauer, Ava 
     Beninati, Lula Bovino, Sabrina Bradford, Mina Cayli, Ayse 
     Civelek, Ava Copeland, Ciela Crane, Philip Dai, Jonah 
     Dickerson, Anna Goldsmith, Rayna Hamilton, Karis Hunt, Ameya 
     Kandula, Avery King, Ally Kryzalka, Sloane Lewis, Sofia 
     Liotino, Robert Lyda, Caroline Mautner, Graham Mills, 
     Niharika Parui, Dawson Raynes, Shravan Selvavel, Hemharsith 
     Sivakumar Gayathri, Asmithaa Vinukonda, Katya Withrow, 
     Allison Witte, Truett Wolf
       Nebraska: Meruni Are, Alejandro Gonzalez Ba os, Francisco 
     Gonzalez Ba os, Landry Lehan
       New Hampshire: Adele Mamedova
       New Jersey: Suheyla Akman, Riya Atluri, Burak Cebe, Canon 
     Chiu, Autumn Chiu, James Crowley, Jack DeVirgilio, Kaitlin 
     Dowling, Sriram Elango, Ryan Gilmartin, Alyssia Gomez, 
     Nathaniel Han, Riya Jain, Rohan Jay, Ahmet Kaval, Muhammed 
     Keskin, Elif Kilinc, Jonah Klein, Naishada Kotagiri, Emily 
     Kukal, Sonal Lakhani, Chase Mazur, Benjamin Miller, Tyler 
     Minn, Senthilkumar Nithyanandam, Udgita Pamidigantam, Rishi 
     Parikh, Rahil Patel, Dev Patel, Samhita Pokkunuri, Mili 
     Raghavan, Pallavi Routray, Shaunak Sabbani, Gavin Tripido, 
     Jonathan Yoo
       Nevada: Jenna Becker, Lorelani Riley Ladislao, Taha Lahlou, 
     Diesel Leano, Jia Mahesh, Emily Mattox, Ignatius Miller, 
     Gianna Nakhle, Randy Pahang, Momoka Utsumi, Tamara Young
       New York: David Barlow, Jonathan Barlow, Luke Bonifacio, 
     Ethan Chiu, Lillianna Cognato, Yana Dhingra, Victoria 
     D'Ovidio, Thomas Fernandez, Cassandra Fitzpatrick, Akshar 
     Gopa, Miyana Holden, Ava Johnson, Riha Kyatham, Ryan Leonard, 
     Jasmine-Sixian Li, Nitin Malepati, Ciara McGroary, Phillip 
     Muller, Viraj Pahuja, Ana Lee Palmer, Saharsh Peddireddy, 
     Sahil Polepalle, Alexander Ren, Hailey Richman, Ziyue Wang, 
     Haluk Yavas, Eugene Yoo, Elle Yormak, Youwei Zhen
       Ohio: Laasya Acharya, Pragalya Arumugam, Micah Burkhard, 
     Shashank Chanamolu, Zachary DeVor, Adam Howe, Gabrielle 
     Kirwin, Madeline Morrison, Megha Nadagouda, Maya Nayar, 
     Carter Norvell, Naisha Patel, Keeran Patel, Meera Rajeev, 
     Vaidika Ravi, Maggie Skelly, John Snethkamp, Keshav Sriram, 
     Shreemayi Trichy
       Oklahoma: Andrew Ebert, Timothy Martin, Anna Parry, Alanya 
     Abou-Elmajd
       Oregon: Sophia D'Antonio, McKenna Erickson
       Pennsylvania: Maura Campbell, Eleanor Day, S bastien 
     Guillotin, Lucas Hayes, Ryan Kraychik, Delia Maldonado, 
     Sabrina Maldonado, Alex Porambo, Shivika Varshney, Vanessa 
     Wehinger, Max Zhang
       Puerto Rico: Gerardo Juan Jos Mena-Fernandez, Meghna 
     (Chili) Pramoda
       South Carolina: Alex Bohnen, Grant Bohnen, Harmonie 
     Frederick, Nina Gallo,

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     Tyler Hanson, Caitlyn Horton, James Reaves, Alexander Ring
       South Dakota: Grace Belcher, Ronan Maher
       Tennessee: Jaishva Bhatt, Daniel Clark, Joshua Clark, 
     Zeynep Dibi, Ethan Elder, Blake Freeman, Rachel Oppmann, 
     Hannah Skaar
       Texas: Heather Adams, Alyssa Anderson, Nikita Basappa, 
     Praneel Bhagavatula, Brooke Carol Billedo, Mehmet Bisen, 
     Andrew Boisson, Nicholas Boling, Ethan Bosita, Carson Bosita, 
     Oliver Burke, Ananya Chandak, Josh Chandra, Sanjith Chandran, 
     Riya Chauhan, Elijah Chen, Isaiah Clark, Shloak Dalal, Charli 
     Davis, Dominique de Waal, Anagha Deepak, Thomas Dorsey, Andon 
     Epp, Nursel Eski, Mahek Goel, Kyler Hester, Abdullah Hussein, 
     Jonah Ismael, Sally Ismael, Trisha Jha, Abraar Khan, Shiza 
     Khan, Ivy Koh, Kaden Mabey, Tanya Mahesh, William Martin, 
     Margot Martin, Justin Mathew, Ayaan Moledina, Abi Newell, 
     Nayonika Pande, Aryan Patel, Aliya Patel, Duane Pfeiffer, 
     Aditi Ramesh Iyer, Shawn Ray, Aubrey Reeves, Zeynep Sahin, 
     Justin Simms, Nikhil Srinivas, Suhaani Srireddy, Julian 
     Stewart, Daniel Thomas, Gracie Wakefield, Sophia Wei, April 
     White, Hazel White, Benjamin Who, William Witherspoon
       Utah: Anvar Boskailo, Elorah Dobrinski, Zuhal Kariparduc, 
     Katherine Kim, Alexandar Straley
       Virginia: Timothy Cline, Rudra Dave, Eren Demirel, Nicholas 
     Flanigan, Namith Gangireddyvari, Kendan Hopkins, Begum 
     Hussain, Zara Sophia Javeri, Evan Kinsel, Joshua Lee, Pierson 
     Lee, Daniel Lian, Yashvir Sabharwal, Serena Sindhi, Rishika 
     Singh, Mark Wilson, Burhan Yasakci, Mert Esat Yercel
       Vermont: Katherine Bartlett, Megan Henderson
       Washington: Irene Batta, Celeste Blair, Sara Cambron, 
     Amalia (Molly) Dudley, Lauren Evans, Varshini Hari, Jason 
     Kim, Ryan Kinder, Lilah Moore, Betul Orhan, Raigan Ryhter, 
     Naren Selvam, Jonathan Tang, Liam Urie, Anisha Vaish
       Wisconsin: Jessica Becker, Michael Brierton, Sandra 
     Brierton, Pranav Nair
       Wyoming: Thomas Audley, Jonnina Edmunds, Cambry Jenks, 
     Aidan Kim-Miller, Caleb Miller, Jackson Neishabouri, Elise 
     Newton, Hunter Sabat, Isabell Salas, Aubrey Smedley, Greyson 
     Smith, Ava Taylor

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